The Gate of Fire continues Tom Harlan's remarkable fantasy epic, following the increasingly dangerous conflicts both military and sorcerous. The sorcerer Dahak plots from his hidden citadel to regain
Lynette Reini-Grandell's long-anticipated debut collection of poetry quickens with forward movement, be it in a car that pushes towards the stars?or with a horse that suddenly spooks, leaving the spea
Apart from two volumes published in the 1990s, the work of L. S. Asekoff has been winning admirers only among those lucky enough to encounter it in poetry journals and magazines over the last three de
Poetry. "Allie Marini Batts' Before Fire: Divorce Poems is a steel-girded elegy that instructs, 'I have taught you well / how to leave me.' Batts' speaker masterfully mourns and acts; she is
Cary Waterman, editor of the Water-Stone Review, writes about travel to Iceland, the myth of Persephone, the luxuriousness of Minnesota seasons and the difficult realities of a nation at war. Her poem
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of his seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought, as
Mark Doty's "Fire to Fire" collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects--our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the worl
Elizabeth Hadaway doesn’t just tell stories in her poems, she aims to delight as much as instruct, and her poems are scores for performance. Sparkling with shout-outs to Beowulf and Keats, varied mete
In this rich collection, W. S. Di Piero seeks the spirit and substance of illumination in all its forms. He finds meaning, or shows us how we attempt to do so, in the rituals and events that mark our
Feeding the Fire retains the virtue of Jeffrey Harrison's earlier work?accessibility and clarity, without sacrifice of complexity?while branching into new territory. There are love poems, lyrics entwi
The poems in Fire & Flower are about the images that hold the world together in the mind of a child, a woman, and the mother she becomes. The metaphors used to describe their lives are mysterious
